Now that the doctors’ strike has been called off, the moot question is, will this find space in the news again only when another doctor is roughed up or killed by disgruntled relatives? With the Supreme Court ruling out protection to doctors at the cost of public money, yet another question is, at whose cost is a politician given protection? Why are the doctors less deserving? If a solution to the mob violence against doctors and their properties is not found then medical profession will be considered “dangerous” and the clamour to take up medicine as a career will go down.
As members of a profession which is supposed to respond to human suffering, doctors have a social responsibility. But will society reciprocate? There is an outrage when it comes to violence against women, children or the common man. People gather in large numbers with placards and raise slogans on the injustice meted…
